yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 5/2/2009
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I don’t really like it when people attribute to me views I don’t hold, so I’ll say in response to Paul Campos that I know perfectly well that if the public adopted healthier lifestyles this would do little to reduce health care costs. Indeed, as he says,depending on exactly ...
whitehouse.gov - 5/4/2009
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Health Care"I suffer no illusions that this will
be an easy process. It will be hard. But...
I also know that nearly a century after Teddy Roosevelt first called for reform, the cost of our health care has weighed down our economy and the conscience of ...
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Health Care
thinkprogress.org - 5/3/2009
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President Obama has said that he would reform
the health care system by establishing a “ public...
insurance program to compete with private insurers ” that would help reduce costs and guarantee coverage. But Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), whose ...
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Ben Nelson opposes Obama’s health care plan.
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Paying for health care and "healthy choices"
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Matt Yglesias points out he doesn't really think that raising sin taxes will reduce health care costs. And he doesn't make that argument in the post in which I attributed it to him, although he does link approvingly to people who do. ...
Why Are Reporters Pretending They Don't Know Obama Will Raise Taxes on the Middle Class?
Ace of Spades HQ —
... While some Obama supporters deride "Tea Party" tax protests on the grounds that Obama hasn't increased taxes on the bottom "95 percent of working families" yet, the diligent Matt Yglesias is already trying to figure out which ones to raise. ... 4:02 P.M. Following that link, we find Yglesias arguing with another liberal about the best way to to secure "broad-based" new tax revenues in order to pay for Obama's health care plans... [A]s Ive been saying, the case for such taxes [on unhealthy habits like smoking] rests on the claim that raising revenue through some source or ...
Crazy Tax
Classical Values —
... And they are among the heaviest of tobacco users. So maybe we need to call the tobacco tax a Schizophrenia Tax. If we can raise tobacco taxes high enough maybe there will come a day when only crazy people will pay taxes. Inspired by this Matt Yglesias piece. Cross Posted at ...
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